22 May

Aboriginals understood animals and plants and what they prefer, and would shape the landscape to appeal to the animals and plants. It was a contract, they'd provide what the animals and plants needed, and would get to eat some of them in return. We on the other hand fence land, and pay almost no attention to what animals and plants need, including free movement, beyond basics. There's very good thinking that says pandemics all derive from how we do farming. Notice we now do the same with 'germs', treat them as isolated things to be fenced off. We live in a country that has a culture that may stretch back over 100,000 years, the world's most sophisticated. It may have mostly been lost.